Private correspondence of Colin Powell, former Secretary of State and a retired four-star general who served under three Republican presidents has been leaked on Tuesday. The e-mails came through the hacker group DC Leaks who dumped a new trove of documents allegedly with information that includes the finances and personal data on Democratic donors.

Private correspondence of Colin Powell, former Secretary of State and a retired four-star general who served under three Republican presidents has been leaked on Tuesday. The e-mails came through the hacker group DC Leaks who dumped a new trove of documents allegedly with information that includes the finances and personal data on Democratic donors.

According to these e-mails Colin Powell had attempted to discourage Hillary Clinton and her team from using him as a scapegoat for her private email server problems.

"Sad thing," Powell wrote to one confidant, "HRC could have killed this two years ago by merely telling everyone honestly what she had done and not tie me to it."